‘Gossip and laughter’: Dames team up for movie with a twist

â€śI wanted these amazing women to do what they are all world champions at doing: talking: yacking, gossiping, reminiscing, reflecting, cursing, loving, praising and laughing,â€ť Michell says. â€śI wanted the film to make us feel like weâ€™re eavesdropping, that nothingâ€™s been rehearsed, or is being presented to camera. My ambition was to create something that felt like anthropology, like journalism, like a privileged intimacy, not reverential, not polite, not hovering deferentially around Grand Dames.â€ť